ss _Castlégar News November 15,1989 November 15, 1989 Spokesmen warn fire not yet determined impact By RANDY TURNER Winnipeg Free Press LAKE ST. GEORGE, Man. (CP) Charlie Cameron's face is covered with soot — he’s black from head to toe, as he struggles to tie a half-dozen charred logs toa skidder Cameron is standing in a forest of y the fires that ncentral: In yne of a han: just started dead wood, charred through the nor terlake last spring. H dful of loggers who ha swept this year’s timber harvest in the In terlake But unlike other y harvest holds little promise this season's The fires that ravaged this area were soon overshadowed by the huge infer nos in northern Manitoba that forced thousands of residents from the homes. But the charred remains here, about 200 kilometres north of Win nipeg, are a stark reminder that an economic building block in this region has been lost for a generation Everything is black, except for a few pockets of trees spared by the fires that destroyed an estimated two million, chords of marketable timber The only thing not in the black are profits “We're not making peanuts,”* said Cameron. ‘We're going to have to do a lot of travelling to go to greener pastures Cutters like Cameron, who serve in the front lines of the Interlake logging industry, are only beg full impact of the ravaged this region last summer AWAITS FULLIMPACT Industry spokesmen warn that the nning to feel the fires that true economic impaet of the fires has yet to be determined, but'they all agree The full impact is not goi known until the governme assessing the damage, Yatkowsky, a buyer for Industries. “(But) everybod in the industry will be affec “There's going to be a major impact onever yone In total, the blaze destroyed about 80 per cent of the allowable cut in the region ed economies. By today’s prices, that tran ito an estimated $160 million loss of revenue from the in will undoubtedly take a toll on with communities resource industry spokesmen Hardest hit immediately will be the cutters, wh are already taking losses as they begin levelling the charred forest . ‘It’s the little guys — the guy with who said Ed the power saw and the skidder is going to be hardest hit,”’ East, the “They won't for 10-15 devastating for them Some of them will probably get out region’s chief forester this (industry) This recover years will be ‘WE DON'T WANT HELP’ Private business still called co-operative MOSCOW (CP) sky wouldn't look Chamber of Cc Moose Jaw, Sask The tall with bushy ‘onid Smetan youn neat grey tweed starched shirts and He bitant, compia government rules frets about the quar But Smetanksy in Moscow Jaw. He? 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Smetansky disputes all thdse points and has a fe He the law establishing co-ops complaints of his own out innumerable regulations but offers no protection to the investor By law, TV advertising time for a co op costs four times as much as it does for Skazka’s ggate-owned competitors. Co-op owners must pay taxes of 50 per cent on the profits they make So what do Smetansky and his-par tners want? A fair law market with no bureaucrats or con That's all on taxes and a free trols of the business altogether and uy something else.”* fonatd Witham, $2, 19 the first te agree with East William, who has b here since he was 13 years old, said the loss of timber has drastically reduced his potential wages cutting wood **1 barely make a go,"’ he said as his wife, Evelyn, helped him cut and stack burned logs MAKES POSTS The Williams are making about $40 $50 a day cutting the black wood, to be used to make fence posts. That's before expenses. “If it was green,”? he noted, “I would walk out of here with $700, $800, sometimes $1,000 (every two weeks).”” Local quota holders many of -whom sub-contract work to cutters like Cameron — are also forecasting a grim future on the eve of their logging season, which begins in the late fall “We lost a lifetime of wood, We never lost a year’s supply,” said An thony Hryhorchuk, president of the Interlake Quota Holders Association With reforestation, it will take at least 60 years to replace the trees That’s too long for the ap proximately 150 workers directly em: ployed by the timber industry in the region Hryhorchuk, who has been in this business for 12 years, provides em ployment for 20 harvesters He was just getting to the point where he was expecting a big year We hada hell of a year planned and it's gone up insmoke,”” hesaid Hryhorchuk expected to make as much as $80,000 for Park North Construction Ltd Instead, he owes the bank $60,000 his company, treplace and ha onditioning c Large execut Hydrosiatx aicleaner TADANAC ive >-bedroo Tiving Tot dwood tHoors am, Home teat Hi double garage with heated driveway Phone for an appomtment ALL JIM MINOR 362-9563 CENTURY 21 VISION REALTY — 368-8236 The Regional in Nelson, B ordinator. developing liaising with groups the Regional the plan Qualified program in management Please apply BARRY BALDI The Co-ordinator will be responsible for initiating a recycling program eventually to be expanded to serve the residential, commercial and industrial users throughout the whole of the _recycling programs public awareness ca candidates RECYCLING CO-ORDINATOR District of Central Kootenay, with offices located C., is seeking a creative and experienced in dividual to assume the challenging position of Recycling Co- new Regional District ponsibil will include implementing and monitoring multi-material developing education programs and a > inating contract tenders and government agencies, business and to The Co-ordinator will also assist in the development and implementation of an overall waste management plan for District which will incorporate recycling as part of should have administration, completed a diploma business waste management community planning or related field, or have considerable ex perience in the field of public involvement, recycling and waste A good knowledge of recylcing collection, material processing and marketing is desirable coupled with excellent written and verbal communication skills The salary range for the position is $2,105-$2,534 per month plus an excellent fringe benefit package in writing by no later than November 29, 1989 giving full details of qualifications and experience to IGARA, Sec. /Assist. 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How will we deal with the Greenhouse Effect? What are we going to do with the ever- increasing mass of garbage w produce? And to what source will we finally turn for our energy needs in the coming decade. Those are just three of the many issues we'll have to face as we say good- bye to the 1980s and welcome the 1990s. The following artic’ The Associated Press and The ahead to the _ promise and perils of the next decade. ‘Energy picture a blur By ROBERT BURNS The Associated Press z, The U.S. energy picture for the 1990s is a blur of dark lines and bright signs: doubt about ensuring stable and technological leaps tow prices steady supplies, but also promise of da more secure energy future Such consumer advances as compact fluorescent light bulbs, windows that better insulate buildings, and more efficient refrigerator motors are just over the The efficiency of these new products should ctricity in the 90s. horizon partly offset the expanded use of el Energy projections over the past two decades have been astonishingly far off the mark, proving that the energy economy is too volatile to follow a predictable path. Even so, the consensus view is that oil prices, now $16 to $18 US a barrel, will hold fairly steady in the early 1990s, and then move moderately higher Analysts are quick to note, however, that the trend in oil prices over the past two decades has been deter mined largely by political events and market reactions almost no one foresaw Experts say forces already at work point to key energy themes for the 1990s More automobiles will be powered by fuels other than gasoline, as the U.S. looks for environmentally safer alternatives that can lessen dependence on foreign oil. Some gas made from water or generated by the sun from coal and grain are likely to become more may use hydroge electricity Fuels made natural ga common PUSHES THE ATOM The U.S. government will push harder to revive atomic power. Tax dollars nuclear reactor with added safety features, but public A key focus of nay be used to develop a opposition to the atom is likely to persist debate: how to store growing tonnes of nuclear waste. Relatively clean energy from nuclear fusion wil] remain only a distant prospect Decisions about developing traditional U.S. energy resources — oil, natural gas and coal — will become more intertwined with worries about the har mful moving and burning The U.S. foreign oil and natural gas as domestic oil producers look abroad for drilling prospects. — And, houses and commercial_buildings will become energy-efficient, with compact fluorescent lights and other advanced appliances, and “*superwindows’’ whose glazing offers greater protec tion from temperature extremes. suggest conflicting signals about fortunes in the environmental effects of finding, extracting, hese fossil fuels. will become more dependent on more These trends American energy next decade: new possibilities for popularizing more benign fuels, but un certainty about a commitment to move away from the most polluting ones, especially oil The Bush administration is promoting a revival of nuclear energy, stagnant since the mid-1970s, but elec jor changes in state and federal regulations will be needed before they'll build more plants tric utilities say n COMPLICATES OUTLOOK Complicating the outlook is a warning from the utility industry and many energy analysts that some regions could face tricity shortages early in the 1990s. Others foresee plenty of power if the government does more to push energy ef especially the Northeast ficiency and conservation While energy sources favored by environmentalists including such as sunlight, wind, water, and geothermal steam — are likely to gain more fayor in the next decade, the world still will run mainly renewables’’ onoil Modern economies, quite simply, are wedded to oil and little could change that in the 1990s. “It is and will continue to be the critical commodity in all of our economic and strategic planning well into the next century,’? said Henson Moore, the députy U.S. energy secretary Joseph Stanislaw, an analyst in the Paris office of Cambridge Energy Research Associates, said the United States will face an oil crunch in the 1990s if, as expected, U.S. oil production keeps falling and demand keeps rising “We're like a shark driving through the water wan. ting more and more imported oil,” he said Critical, too, will be the actions of ihe OPEC oil continued on page C3 Talk turns to survival By MITCHELL LANDSBERG The Associated Press In a simpler time, environmentalists talked about saving forests for hiking, streams for rafting and clean air for the pure enjoyment of breathing it Now, as the 1990s approach, the talk has turned to saving forests for oxygen, keeping streams from spreading toxic pollutants, cleaning the air to avoid catastrophic global warming ___The environment looms as the major global issue of survival change a way of life by starting to wean commuters off gasoline-powered vehicles in the 1990s, The rest of the United States undoubtedly will follow that lead Already, a congressional committee has voted to adopt California’s tough new standards for anti-pollution equipment on cars. Ozone depletion pollutant spewed out by cars, but high in the at mosphere it’s a vital gas shielding Earth from dangerous ultraviolet rays. That shield is being destroyed by yet another h Mutant chlorofluorocarbons In cities, ozone is a toxic the next decade and the threat of an-em cataclysm is replacing nuclear holocaust as the scariest menace to civilization * | The World Bank, long dismissed by environmen talists as ecologically insensitive, now calls the environ ment its leading priority for the 1990s. President George Bush called the '90s **the era for clean air.”” The Worldwatch” Institute, an environmental research organization, calls the 1990s the turnaround decade in which people will either stop polluting or face an environmental disaster as devastating as nuclear war “By many measures, time Is running out,”’ World watch warned in its State of the World (1989) report Not everyone shares Worldwatch’s apocalyptic vision, which is based largely on the threat of global warming — the greenhouse effect. Many respected scientists say the available evidence doesn’t warrant the doomsday warnings, but few doubt that environmental issues will be paramount in the coming years. If nothing else, the "90s are likely to be a decade of unprecedented research into environmental problems as scientists try to solve 19th- and 20th- century problems before people start mucking up the 21st SETS THE AGENDA The environmental agenda in the '90s will include Clean air. Perhaps no environmental issue will be as sharply felt. In California, authorities will try to By JOHN DONNELLY The Associated Press By the end of the 1990s, Americans may be paying by the kilogram to get rid of theif garbage, their homes could have more recycling bins than trash cans, and supermarket food will probably come with less super wrapping Solid-waste inevitable because of an upcoming crunch on the gar bage front: Half the 6,000 garbage dumps in the United States will be filled and closed in the "90s The ride into the recycling decade may be bumpy Buyers for recycled newspaffer, glass and plastic are difficult. to find, and breaking the generations-old habit of tossing everything into one garbage may prove daunting. New recycling systems need hefty up-front appropriations. overwhelming specialists say such changes are sometimes Specialists see motivation for change The cost of simply throwing things away is rising, as communities ship their garbage farther and new environmental regulations make dump maintenan ce more expensive — And, people are growing more concerned about cleaning up the planet. A Media General-Associated Press poll earlier this cent of Americans would back a requirement to separate their trash for recycling, “Environmental awareness is growing by leaps and bounds,” said Sylvia Lowrance, director of the En: vironmental Protection Agency’s office of solid waste “We're going to see a lot off peer pressure, neighborly pressure on people not to throw away everything.” In garbage, the future is also the past RETURNS TO PAST Greater recylcing and reuse of discarded material would represent a return to pre-Second World War ways in America, including fewer-frills packaging on food products “By the end of the decade, I think recycling is going to be part of the cultural fabric of society,’ said Bruce Weddle, director of EPA's program. ‘People will be separating out all bottles, cans, newspapers, plastics, leaves and grass clippings in. stead of throwing them in one can The transition won't occur overnight, the experts say, but with the Lowrance, ‘when it hits their pocketbook, they're year found 87 per municipal solid waste “even recalcitrant ones,"’ said going to become recyclers."” Ast is now, many communities go to great lengths to dump garbage. Northeast states truck trash hundreds of kilometres to Midwest dumps, while West Coast cities ship it by rail to rural landfills because their hometown dumps have Much of the interstate garbage business is in jeopardy because landfills are closing and local residents closed oppose opening new ones to the out-of-state waste In addition, new EPA landfill regulations will ac celerate the garbage crunch by shutting down many an tiquated dumps, Lowrance said. The new rules will require dump inspections and multi-layered dump liners, which prevent liquid from contaminating groun dwater About 80 per cent of the dumps in the United States don't have liners Although all this makes recycling look more attrac tive, most garbage specialists say recycling alone won't solve the garbage crisis continued on page C3 and the consequences are expected to include increased rates of skin cancer and cataracts And, extinction of species. Largely because of the burning of tropical rain forests, entire. species of animals, plants and insects are becoming extinct at the fastest rate in human history All these concerns will be secondary, however, to the one overriding issue that touches them all — global warming The greenhouse theory has been around for two centuries; but suddenly became the stuff of newspaper headlines during thé hot, dry summer of 1988. The idea is that certain gases in the atmosphere act like the glass on a greenhouse. They let sunlight in, but won’t let its heat out. The biggest villain is carbon dioxide, which is rel Scientists almost universally agree that the gases sed when fossil fuels are burned will cause the Earth to get warmer “The greenhouse effect is not a hypothesis or anything; it’s one of the best-established facts about the way the world works,”’ said Gus Steth, president of the World Resources Institute That's where the agreement ends; the fight begins when experts try to guess when the warming will occur and how bad it will be. Some, such as Stephen Schneider, deputy director Solid waste of the National Centre for Atmospheric argue that the greenhouse effect has already begun and Research, will have devastating effects in the next century unless radical actionis taken Without such action, Schneider envisions a starkly different world by the middle of the next century Oceans could rise, deserts could spread, forests could die, and people could starve ‘Such a change,” Schneider wrote in Scientific American magazine, ‘“‘would be unprecedented in human_history; it would match the warming since-the peak of the last ice age 18,000 years ago but would take effect between 10 and 100 times faster It’s too late to stop the Schneider argues, but the worst of it could be averted if warming altogether, people cut back drastically in their use of fossil fuels and opped destroying rain forests Other premature Richard Lindzen, a meteorology professor at the Massachusetts scientists believe such warnings are Institute of Technology, argues that climate scientists are operating in a vacuum, not a greenhouse. He said they lack the facts to support claims about global warming *You know very well we can’t predict the weather with any certainty,"’ Lindzen said with a chuckle. His forecast for-the—"90s giness with a chance of clearing by the end of the continued scientific Schneider's forecast is considerably more ominous “Six of the warmest years in the last 100 occurred in the "80s," he said at a meeting of chemists in Miami. **And I'll give you odds that the '90s will be warmer than the "80s." That sort of prognosticating doesn’t impress the greenhouse skeptics lis reach capacity and costs of waste will be ible in the 1990s, GOING TO WASTE . . . as more and more landfi d | rise, recycling of solid-waste prod experts say. Seattle sets pace in reuse of refuse SEATTLE (CP) — To a new environmentalist, this Northwest metropolis is a mecca “We do dream about a different world,"” says project manager Lorie Parker, one of nine Seattle city employees plot breed of ecycle can.” waste reduction ting new ways to recycle solid **We want to make recycling just as easy as throwing away gar waste bage A new city booklet that shows the way, On the Road to Recovery, Residents is being read by garbage specialists waste paper, across the United States some plastics, The publication city’s plans to recycle 60 per cent of bage its waste by the end of the 1990s By the year 2010, the booklet buying than They are outlines the cans. curbsides predicts, residents “are more durable products disposable products. buying products with little or no fore packaging. Most homes have only one waste can, but every room has “Processing the recyclables has become a major industry in Seattle, employing hundreds of people.” In 1987, the city recycled 24 per cent of its waste. It's now up to 34 percent, after starting its voluntary program last year PICKS UP TRASH recycle glass, household wastes and even their old steel gar Trucks separated material, which is left to yeling is free, but residents are charged by the barrel for trash $13.75 a month per garbage can urbside pickup. The city’s next recycling target is food and yard leaves, grass clippings ‘and the like. Of ficials want it collected processed, back to residents as high-grade mulch composted and sold Seattle is also experimenting people's and charging by weight, with weighing garbage nd is con sidering an intensive education program promoting the durable purchase newspapers, of goods, the reuse of aluminum, products and avoiding excessive packaging The rest of the U.S toxic is watching pick up the Seattle's progress “If 1 were a local official, I'd look very closely at it," Weddle, director of the Environ mental Agency's said Bruce Protection municipal waste program